From lorelei at jlab.org Mon Oct 6 10:21:31 2025 From: lorelei at jlab.org (Lorelei Carlson) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:21:31 +0000 Subject: [Cuga] CHEP 2026: Bangkok Thailand - Registration and Abstract Submission Open- A message from Holly Szumila-Vance In-Reply-To: References: <4258C0FB-ABD6-492A-AC63-E278E548C225@cern.ch> <1D01CBCE-10BE-4CBA-A779-9EC1E5B1D2B6@cern.ch> Message-ID: Dear All, CHEP 2026 [1] - Registration and Abstract Submission Now Open https://indico.cern.ch/e/chep2026 I would greatly appreciate your support in sharing this announcement within your community. Please note that the conference warmly welcomes contributions from a broad range of data-intensive and large-scale data processing fields beyond HEP and NP. It provides an excellent opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, including (but not limited to) applications in astronomy, biology, medicine, and quantum computing. Thank you in advance for your support. We look forward to welcoming you to Bangkok! Best, Phat The next Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) will take place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, from 25-29 May 2026. CHEP is the forum for discussing computing, networking, and software challenges of large-scale, data-intensive scientific experiments in high-energy and nuclear physics, experiments that process and analyze exabytes of data using globally distributed resources. Beyond HEP, the conference welcomes contributions from a wide range of data-intensive and large-scale data processing fields. It offers an excellent opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, including (but not limited to) applications in astronomy, biology, medicine, and quantum computing. Further details are available on the conference Indico page: https://indico.cern.ch/e/chep2026 Registration and abstract submission are now open. 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"MOLLER data acquisition and analysis systems" ????Paul King Abstract: In parity-violating electron scattering (PVES), experiments measure a small difference in the elastic scattering rate of longitudinally-polarized electrons when their spin direction is reversed. This arises from the interference between the electromagnetic and weak interactions. Experiments can use this sensitivity to investigate the strange-quark contributions to the nucleon form factors (G0 and HAPPEX), distributions of neutrons in the nucleus (PREX, PREX-II, and CREX), or test predictions of the Standard Model (Qweak and MOLLER). The physics asymmetry in the Hall A MOLLER experiment will be about 35 parts-per-billon. Measuring these small asymmetries requires data acquisition and analysis systems that are distinct from those used elsewhere at Jefferson Lab. 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"MOLLER data acquisition and analysis systems" ????Paul King Abstract: In parity-violating electron scattering (PVES), experiments measure a small difference in the elastic scattering rate of longitudinally-polarized electrons when their spin direction is reversed. This arises from the interference between the electromagnetic and weak interactions. Experiments can use this sensitivity to investigate the strange-quark contributions to the nucleon form factors (G0 and HAPPEX), distributions of neutrons in the nucleus (PREX, PREX-II, and CREX), or test predictions of the Standard Model (Qweak and MOLLER). The physics asymmetry in the Hall A MOLLER experiment will be about 35 parts-per-billon. Measuring these small asymmetries requires data acquisition and analysis systems that are distinct from those used elsewhere at Jefferson Lab. 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"MOLLER data acquisition and analysis systems" ????Paul King Abstract: In parity-violating electron scattering (PVES), experiments measure a small difference in the elastic scattering rate of longitudinally-polarized electrons when their spin direction is reversed. This arises from the interference between the electromagnetic and weak interactions. Experiments can use this sensitivity to investigate the strange-quark contributions to the nucleon form factors (G0 and HAPPEX), distributions of neutrons in the nucleus (PREX, PREX-II, and CREX), or test predictions of the Standard Model (Qweak and MOLLER). The physics asymmetry in the Hall A MOLLER experiment will be about 35 parts-per-billon. Measuring these small asymmetries requires data acquisition and analysis systems that are distinct from those used elsewhere at Jefferson Lab. 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For now, please be highly circumspect in planning for travel, meetings, and visits to the laboratory. Please coordinate with your primary Jefferson Lab contact to discuss any such plans, or other activities that could be affected by a possible shutdown. Details are currently evolving as we continue to work to ensure the safe and secure operations of the lab, while minimizing impact on our users and workforce during an extended lapse in funding. We are committed to sharing our plans with you when they are finalized. Thank you for your continued partnership and commitment to Jefferson Lab?s mission. With best regards, Thia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lorelei at jlab.org Fri Oct 17 15:22:50 2025 From: lorelei at jlab.org (Lorelei Carlson) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:22:50 +0000 Subject: [Cuga] Update on Federal Government Shutdown Planning Activities- A message From the Chief Operating Officer In-Reply-To: References: <1de9c43e6d5e45ff0ecd664cd.14d5887fba.20251017190957.9c4f9e537c.6e29a7e2@mail14.suw13.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: Please see message below sent to JLab staff moments ago: Message From the Chief Operating Officer [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1de9c43e6d5e45ff0ecd664cd/images/e6203673-8394-4ed6-8d7b-dc3fa3383708.jpg] MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER October 17, 2025 SUBJECT: Update on Federal Government Shutdown Planning Activities CONTACT: Lauren Hansen, lhansen at jlab.org Colleagues, We are continuing to work through options to extend the time we are able to remain in full operations prior to taking the step of furloughing staff. This week, we have been working through multiple scenarios and sincerely appreciate DOE?s partnership. To extend operations through the full work week of Oct. 20-24, the lab will observe the day after Thanksgiving holiday on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in lieu of Friday, Nov. 28. This means the lab will be closed, staff should not work unless specifically approved by their division leader, and they should enter time on their timesheets as holiday hours. We recognize there are many questions. We continue to develop a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions based on evolving scenarios, which we plan to share next week. As Director Jens Dilling detailed in the Oct. 10 all-staff meeting, we are committed to the priorities of safety, the wellbeing of our people, and mission delivery. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through this process, and have a good weekend. Johnathon Huff Chief Operating Officer 12000 JEFFERSON AVENUE ? NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23606 ? USA ? 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The main objective of the QCD Evolution Workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the recent scientific accomplishments in areas such as generalized parton distributions (GPDs), transverse momentum distributions (TMDs), and small-x physics, together with advances in perturbative and non-perturbative techniques within QCD, such as lattice QCD and effective field theory (EFT) techniques. In doing so this workshop also aims to support and guide the physics programs at facilities such as Jefferson Lab, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) complex at CERN. The workshop is also central to the building of the next-generation nuclear physics facility in the US, the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). The abstract submission and the registration will be open on the workshop's indico website: https://indico.fis.ucm.es/event/37/ Local Organizing Committee: UCM: Ignazio Scimemi, Alexey Vladimirov, Pia Zurita, Arturo Arroyo Castro,Daniel D?az Fernandez, Patricia Andrea Gutierrez Garc?a, Sara Pilo?eta ?lvarez, Guillermo Portela Mayer, Oscar del Rio Garc?a UAH: Francesco Giovanni Celiberto International Advisory Committee: Alessandro Bacchetta (Pavia), Ian Balitsky (ODU and JLab), Daniel Boer (Groningen), Elena Boglione (Turin), Ian Cloet (ANL), Martha Constantinou (Temple), Umberto D'Alesio (Cagliari), Leonard Gamberg (PSU Berks), Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL), Zhongbo Kang (UCLA), Yuri Kovchegov (OSU), Asmita Mukherjee (IIT Bombay), Nobuo Sato (JLab), Barbara Pasquini (Pavia), Alexei Prokudin (PSU Berks and JLab), Jianwei Qiu (JLab), Anatoly Radyushkin (ODU and JLab), Ivan Vitev (LANL), Feng Yuan (LBNL). 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Registration is now open at https://www.munich-iapbp.de/2026-registration-primoridal-cosmology Further information on the 2026 program series and MIAPbP in general may also be found on the webpage: https://www.munich-iapbp.de. Since the deadline for application is 17 November 2025, we would like to ask you to register without delay if you are interested in participating. MIAPbP requests a minimum attendance of 10 working days and provides each external participant with an 80? per diem for each day of participation. DISCLAIMER: due to the rules of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), our funding agency, MIAPbP, cannot host scientists employed in or by the Russian Federation until further notice. Scientists from the Russian Federation are still welcome to register, but their registration will be treated as tentative. 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URL: From lorelei at jlab.org Fri Oct 31 13:40:07 2025 From: lorelei at jlab.org (Lorelei Carlson) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:40:07 +0000 Subject: [Cuga] Jefferson Lab Operations Update- A message from Thia Keppel Message-ID: October 31, 2025 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to update you on the status of Jefferson Lab operations during the federal government shutdown, as was shared with staff members yesterday during two all-staff meetings. * As of today, Friday, Oct. 31, we can confirm the continuation of full operations at the lab through Friday, Nov. 14. * Lab leadership is actively working with the Department of Energy to find ways to extend operations as long as possible and we commit to keeping you updated if this information changes. Please note these important updates related to the federal government shutdown and potential furlough impacts for the user community: Remote Computing Access If the lab were to furlough employees, the following measures will be taken until the furlough was lifted, and Jefferson Lab restarted normal operations: * User access to Jefferson Lab computing systems would be suspended. * E-mail access, access to internal web servers and file systems, and access to scientific and LQCD computing resources would be unavailable. * Users will not be able to create virtual meetings using third-party services, such as Zoom.gov, using their Jefferson Lab login credentials. They would still be able to attend Zoom meetings created elsewhere if provided with the meeting login information. Site Access During a furlough: * User access to Jefferson Lab facilities, including the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), will be prohibited. * All scientific users, including students and visiting researchers, would not be permitted on site. Please consult with your home institutions on your work and project expectations while unable to access the Jefferson Lab site or its computing resources during this time. Residence Facility The Residence Facility is expected to remain open; however, we advise you to remain cautious while planning for travel, meetings, and visits to the lab. Please coordinate with your primary Jefferson Lab contact to discuss any such plans, or other activities that could be affected by the government shutdown. For additional information on residence facility availability, please contact them at 757-223-1167 or visit https://sura.org/resfac21/. As ever, we appreciate your patience in these uncertain times and deeply value your partnership. 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